Dear Colleagues: We would be grateful if you would share the appended announcement with those who may be interested. Thank you - Steering Committee, ICAI ------------ CALL FOR PAPERS and Call For Workshop/Session Proposals ICAI'11 The 2011 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Date and Location: July 18-21, 2011, Las Vegas, USA Conference Web site: http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp11/ws/conferences/icai11 This is the 13th annual offering of ICAI conference. You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All accepted papers will be published in the ICAI conference proceedings (in printed book form; later, the proceedings will also be accessible online). Those interested in proposing workshops/sessions, should refer to the relevant sections that appear below. SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: O Brain models / cognitive science O Natural language processing O Fuzzy logic and soft computing O Software tools for AI O Expert systems O Decision support systems O Automated problem solving O Knowledge discovery O Knowledge representation O Knowledge acquisition O Knowledge-intensive problem solving techniques O Knowledge networks and management O Intelligent information systems O Intelligent data mining and farming O Intelligent web-based business O Intelligent agents O Intelligent networks O Intelligent databases O Intelligent user interface O AI and evolutionary algorithms O Intelligent tutoring systems O Reasoning strategies O Distributed AI algorithms and techniques O Distributed AI systems and architectures O Neural networks and applications O Heuristic searching methods O Languages and programming techniques for AI O Constraint-based reasoning and constraint programming O Intelligent information fusion O Learning and adaptive sensor fusion O Search and meta-heuristics O Swarm Optimization O Multisensor data fusion using neural and fuzzy techniques O Integration of AI with other technologies O Evaluation of AI tools O Social intelligence (markets and computational societies) O Social impact of AI O Emerging technologies O Topics on satisfiability O Applications (including: computer vision, signal processing, military, surveillance, robotics, medicine, pattern recognition, face recognition, finger print recognition, finance and marketing, stock market, education, emerging applications, ...) O Workshop on Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications: - General Machine Learning Theory . Statistical learning theory . Unsupervised and Supervised Learning . Multivariate analysis . Hierarchical learning models . Relational learning models . Bayesian methods . Meta learning . Stochastic optimization . Topics on satisfiability . Simulated annealing . Heuristic optimization techniques . Neural networks . Reinforcement learning . Multi-criteria reinforcement learning . General Learning models . Multiple hypothesis testing . Decision making . Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods . Non-parametric methods . Graphical models . Gaussian graphical models . Particle filter . Cross-Entropy method . Ant colony optimization . Time series prediction . Fuzzy logic and learning . Inductive learning and applications . Grammatical inference - General Graph-based Machine Learning Techniques . Graph kernel and graph distance methods . Graph-based semi-supervised learning . Graph clustering . Graph learning based on graph transformations . Graph learning based on graph grammars . Graph learning based on graph matching . General theoretical aspects of graph learning . Statistical modeling of graphs . Information-theoretical approaches to graphs . Motif search . Network inference . General issues in graph and tree mining - Machine Learning Applications . Aspects of knowledge structures . Computational Finance . Computational Intelligence . Knowledge acquisition and discovery techniques . Induction of document grammars . Supervised and unsupervised classification of web data . General Structure-based approaches in information retrieval, web authoring, information extraction, and web content mining . Latent semantic analysis . Aspects of natural language processing . Intelligent linguistic . Aspects of text technology . Computational vision . Bioinformatics and computational biology . Biostatistics . High-throughput data analysis . Biological network analysis: protein-protein networks, signaling networks, metabolic networks, transcriptional regulatory networks . Graph-based models in biostatistics . Computational Neuroscience . Computational Chemistry . Computational Statistics . Systems Biology . Algebraic Biology USEFUL WEB LINKS: The DBLP list of accepted papers of ICAI 2010 is at: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/icai/icai2010.html The main web site of ICAI'11 is at: http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp11/ws/conferences/icai11 ICAI'11 conference will be held simultaneously (same location and dates) with WORLDCOMP 2011 congress - WORLDCOMP 2011 congress is composed of major tracks in the following areas: Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (BIOCOMP); Computer Design (CDES); Computer Graphics & Virtual Reality (CGVR); Scientific Computing (CSC); Data Mining (DMIN); e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise IS, & e-Government (EEE); Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems (ERSA); Embedded Systems (ESA); Foundations of Computer Science (FCS); Frontiers in Education, CS & CE (FECS); Grid Computing (GCA); Genetic and Evolutionary Methods (GEM); Artificial Intelligence (ICAI); Internet Computing (ICOMP); Wireless Networks (ICWN); Information & Knowledge Engineering (IKE); Image Processing, Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition (IPCV); Modeling, Simulation & Visualization Methods (MSV); Parallel & Distributed Processing Techniques & Applications (PDPTA); Security & Management (SAM); Software Engineering (SERP); and Semantic Web and Web Services (SWWS). For more information about each of the above tracks, refer to: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/ IMPORTANT DATES: March 10, 2011: Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages) April 03, 2011: Notification of acceptance (+/- two days) April 24, 2011: Final papers + Copyright/Consent + Registration July 18-21, 2011: The 2011 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'11) ACADEMIC CO-SPONSORS: Currently being prepared - The Academic sponsors of the last offering of ICAI (2010) included research labs and centers affiliated with (a partial list): University of California, Berkeley; University of Southern California; University of Texas at Austin; Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia; Emory University, Georgia; University of Minnesota; University of Iowa; University of North Dakota; NDSU-CIIT Green Computing & Comm. Lab.; University of Siegen, Germany; UMIT, Austria; SECLAB (University of Naples Federico II + University of Naples Parthenope + Second University of Naples, Italy); National Institute for Health Research; World Academy of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies; Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine (ISIBM); The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics; Eastern Virginia Medical School & the American College of Surgeons, USA. (51607) SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them to the evaluation web site at: http://world-comp.org Submissions must be uploaded by March 10, 2011 and they must be in either MS doc (but not docx) or pdf formats (about 5 to 7 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12). All reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their final papers for publication.) Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first page of the paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for each author. The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the content of the paper. Finally, the name of the conference (ie, ICAI) that the paper is being submitted for consideration must be stated on the first page. The length of the final/Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 (two-column IEEE style) pages. Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases of contradictory recommendations, a member of the conference program committee will be charged to make the final decision (accept/reject) - often, this would involve seeking help from additional referees by using a double-blinded review process. In addition, all papers whose authors included a member of the conference program committee will be evaluated using the double-blinded review process. (Essay/philosophical papers will not be refereed but may be considered for discussion/panels). All proceedings of WORLDCOMP will be published and indexed in: Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering & Technology, DBLP / CS Bibliography, and others. The printed proceedings will be available for distribution on site at the conference. In addition to the publication of the proceedings, selected authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication in a number of research books being proposed/contracted with various publishers (such as, Springer, Elsevier, ...) - these books would be composed after the conference. Also, many chairs of sessions and workshops will be forming journal special issues to be published after the conference. MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES: The members of the Steering Committee of The 2010 congress included: Dr. Selim Aissi (Chief Strategist, Intel Corporation, USA); Prof. Hamid Arabnia (ISIBM Fellow & Professor, University of Georgia; Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine; Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Supercomputing, Springer; Advisory Board, IEEE TC on Scalable Computing); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (Member, National Academy of Engineering, IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, Professor; University of California, Berkeley, USA); Prof. Hyunseung Choo (ITRC Director of Ministry of Information & Communication; Director, ITRC; Director, Korea Information Processing Society; Assoc. Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology; Professor, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea); Prof. Winston Wai-Chi Fang (IEEE Fellow, TSMC Distinguished Chair Professor, National ChiaoTung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC); Prof. Andy Marsh (Director HoIP, Secretary-General WABT; Vice-president ICET and ICMCC, Visiting Professor, University of Westminster, UK); Dr. Rahman Tashakkori (Director, S-STEM NSF Supported Scholarship Program and NSF Supported AUAS, Appalachian State U., USA); Prof. Layne T. Watson (IEEE Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow, Fellow of The National Institute of Aerospace, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, USA); and Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Member, National Academy of Engineering; IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, AAAI Fellow, IFSA Fellow; Director, BISC; Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA). The list of Program Committee of ICAI 2010 appears at: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp10/ws/conferences/icai10/c… The ICAI 2011 program committee is currently being compiled. Many who have already joined the committee are renowned leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists and practitioners of the highest ranks; many are directors of research labs., members of National Academy of Engineering, fellows of various societies, heads/chairs of departments, program directors of research funding agencies, deans and provosts as well as members of chapters of World Academy of Science. Program Committee members are expected to have established a strong and documented research track record. Those interested in joining the Program Committee should email editor(a)world-comp.org the following information for consideration/evaluation: Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address, email address, a one-page biography that includes research expertise and the name of the conference (ie, ICAI 2011) offering to help with. GENERAL INFORMATION: ICAI conference is a track of a federated research conference. It is being held jointly (same location and dates) with a number of other research conferences (WORLDCOMP). WORLDCOMP is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have 2,000 or more attendees from over 85 countries. WORLDCOMP 2011 will be composed of research presentations, keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and poster presentations. In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel speakers have included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer/ architecture, U. of California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer/VR, U. of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X Window System, xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program Director, U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard U.), Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi (Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director, Project Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2010 delegates photos available at: www.pixagogo.com/1676934789 An important mission of WORLDCOMP is "Providing a unique platform for a diverse community of constituents composed of scholars, researchers, developers, educators, and practitioners. The Congress makes concerted effort to reach out to participants affiliated with diverse entities (such as: universities, institutions, corporations, government agencies, and research centers/labs) from all over the world. The congress also attempts to connect participants from institutions that have teaching as their main mission with those who are affiliated with institutions that have research as their main mission. The congress uses a quota system to achieve its institution and geography diversity objectives." One main goal of the congress is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research conferences, workshops, and symposiums into a coordinated research meeting held in a common place at a common time. This model facilitates communication among researchers in different branches of computer science, computer engineering, and applied computing. The Congress also encourages multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research initiatives; ie, facilitating increased opportunities for cross-fertilization across sub-disciplines. PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING SESSIONS/WORKSHOPS: Each session will have at least 6 paper presentations from different authors (12 papers in the case of workshops). The session chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, ... The names of session chairs will appear as Associate Editors in the conference proceedings and on the cover of the books. Proposals to organize sessions should include the following information: name and address (+ email) of proposer, his/her biography, title of session, a 100-word description of the topic of the session, the name of the conference the session is submitted for consideration (ie, ICAI), and a short description on how the session will be advertised (in most cases, session proposers solicit papers from colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the session proposer). email your session proposal to editor(a)world-comp.org We would like to receive the session proposals as soon as possible (preferably before Feb. 5, 2011). NEWS: Thanks to authors and speakers of last WORLDCOMP congress and members of the editorial boards who informed us of the following good news: According to "Microsoft Academic Search" (a Microsoft initiative) all tracks of WORLDCOMP are listed as worldwide "Top-ranked Conferences" (based on various metrics but mainly based on the number of citations). You can access "Microsoft Academic Search" and specific information extracted from it (in reference to WORLDCOMP's individual conferences' names/acronyms and tracks) from the link below: http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp11/ws/news As of January 21, 2011, papers published in IC-AI/ICAI conference proceedings have received 1,478 citations - see: http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/7 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= This email was sent to: koglist(a)cogpsyphy.hu To opt out of this email list: http://world-comp.org/cgi-bin/rm/full.cgi?60664C74-5F75-11DE-8EB0-A907A2EBF…